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Michael Renner retweeted
A conversation that has happened many times in banking, with various flavor texts, from fintech to public banking to microfinance.
A: We think there is an opportunity to write loans to an underserved population.
B: At usuriously high rates?
A: No, at usual rates. Maybe lower.
Been suspiciously quiet after all
AAAAWWOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAA
A high severity vulnerability in "the most widely deployed DNS software on the internet" just dropped
kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2026-943…
Das vertrottelte Österreich muss sich wohl erst noch mit der maximalen Aufnahme seiner Elektrogeräte vertraut machen.
Not a coincidence that small & high performance electric motors are on the forefront of non-trivial re-shoring both in Europe and USA
Rolling out an expansive fluent-bit/librdkafka telemetry patch only to realize that the question you were interested in can't be answered by the newly emitted metrics
#slop_to_learn
So this thing is going to be beaten by a fucking BMW fridge on wheels for the 1000km runs?
My thoughts on the new Tesla Roadster are mixed.
The stunts were truly impressive and congrats to those who made it happen.
However, I don't think I'd want that in a car. It will never be road legal, probably nullifying your warranty. And based on the configuration, you are losing too much with just one seat.
The 'Thrust' package is probably the best option, but I'm still mad we didn't just get the 2017 Roadster.
I feel like the design got worse: we lost half the range, 2 seats, and gained 0.9-sec 0-60 and some downforce. It's cool, but it's nothing like what it was supposed to be. I guess that's Tesla in 2026, ahead of Elon pushing for a merger with SpaceX.
Ich freu mich schon auf die Verkaufszahlen. Wird ein spannender Realitätsabgleich fürs Institut werden.
Wochenend-Rabbit-Hole:
Warum lässt Gorenje bei ihrer China-Schwestermarke Hisense bei den Waschtrocknern für den EU-Markt selbst im oberen Preissegment Aquastop weg?
#spectator_corpo_politics
Michael Renner retweeted
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
In my career, compilers have always generated better code that I ever could have. I find this to be increasingly so with contemporary AIs.
But you know what neither can do better than me?
Knowing what software to write, what shape it should take, and what I want it to do.
The entire history of software engineering has been one of rising levels of abstraction.
This is how it was, how it is now, and how it shall be in the fullness of time.
Das deutsche Smart Meter System mit der extrem fragmentierten Pipeline keeps on giving.
More vendors, more fun!
p(yawn)
I went to an rationalist/EA AI doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that AI will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that AI literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of AI doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent AI inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean AI safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing AI systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse that they refuse to be reasoned out of it.
Shots fired!
Replying to @phsch108
Rye bread is the heart of Finnish culture; these sachertorte nibblers don’t have the same cultural connection to it

























